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  • James Madison’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    What happens when the most private conviction shapes the most public liberty? In James Madison’s Religion, discover how James Madison’s lifelong wrestling with belief-born in Anglican Virginia, sharpened by Enlightenment reason, and tested in the furnace of politics-became the blueprint for the First Amendment.Drawing on letters, debates, and long-overlooked manuscripts, this g...
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  • Hannah and Martin
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    Hannah and Martin brings to life the complex relationship between two towering figures of 20th-century philosophy: Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. dramatized as a play, this work stages their philosophical and romantic entanglements set against the backdrop of significant philosophical questions about being, truth, and ethics. Stephen Vicchio uses their relationship, compli...
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  • Hell
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    This book is about the history of an idea-the age-old notion of hell and the soul’s punishment after death. It begins with perspectives on this idea found in the ancient world, continues to the medieval period, and culminates with perspectives on the history of this same idea in the modern world of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Several fascinating images accompany a rivetin...
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  • Benjamin Franklin’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    This book is about the religious views of the greatest statesman in the history of the United States-Benjamin Franklin. The text covers Franklin’s views from the adoption of his parents Congregationalist and Presbyterian perspectives, followed by a period of religious doubt, his comments about religion as a diplomat in Britain and France, and ironically, a return at the end of ...
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    17,18 €

  • Mala’Ika
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    This book analyzes the many views of the Mala’ika-or angels-in the Islamic faith, the nature and functions of angels, and how a belief in angels is among Islam’s six principal Articles of Faith. The work deeply examines the most important angel, Jibril (Gabriel), who delivered the message of Al-Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, and further examines the other archangels and their ...
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    20,57 €

  • Evil And Suffering In The Bible
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    When I became aware of the Corona virus in January of 2020, I thought I would continue to do what I have always done-to think and write about evil and suffering. Thus, I began planning a book on Biblical views on evil and suffering. This was an effort to do what I have always done. That is, to use my skills to show what the Bible has said about times of crisis and turmoil.In my...
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    20,69 €

  • Evil In World Religions
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    Evil in World Religions is an authoritative examination of the similarities and differences in how many of the world’s religions respond to the issues of evil and suffering in the world. After proposing definitions of 'religion,' 'evil' and other useful religious concepts, this study begins with the world’s oldest religions-Hinduism, Judaism and the dualistic faiths of Zoroastr...
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    20,46 €

  • Muslim Slaves In The Chesapeake 1634 to 1865
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    This work is the product of ten years of study. It is about the phenomenon of Muslim slaves in the Chesapeake Bay Region from 1634 until 1865. The book examines fifty-five Muslim slaves in Maryland and another fifty-one in Virginia. It also looks at slave forts and prisons in Africa, the Middle Passage-the route by which West African slaves came to America-slave auction and sla...
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    19,97 €

  • The Akedah Or Sacrifice Of Isaac
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    The Akedah or Sacrifice of Isaac is a history of how the Old Testament passage at Genesis 22:1 to 19, called the Akedah or the Sacrifice of Isaac, has been interpreted over time in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This study begins with an analysis of human sacrifice in the ancient world, followed by human sacrifice elsewhere in the Bible and a close reading of the Hebrew text ...
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    20,47 €

  • The Idea Of The Demonic
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    This study examines the idea of the demonic as it appeared among the many cultures and in the diverse religions and scriptures of the world. The book explores many different periods of time including the medieval period, the early modern era, the reformation, early modern periods, and in the contemporary world. Special attention is also given to how the idea of the demonic has ...
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    20,18 €

  • From Vladimir to Vladimir
    Stephen J. Ph.D. Vicchio
    From Vladimir to Vladimir is about the long and complicated relationship between Russia and Ukraine. It begins with Prince Vladimir of Kiev, who established the Kievan Rus’ Empire (879-1240 CE), one that expanded and contracted over four centuries-longer than the United States has existed. The book ends with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022.Vicchio explores l...
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    15,42 €

  • The Book of Job
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    This book is the product of fifty years of scholarship. It consists of two main parts: the first is an essay on the history of interpreting the book of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The second part is a commentary on the book. ...
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    48,97 €

  • Executioner’s Hill
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    Strange things comin’ and goin’ on that hill . . .The guillotine challenges the axe-wielding executioner’s craft. This exploration of capital punishment set in a small Dutch town in 1799 sears with the immediacy of today’s current debate.A play in three acts, Executioner’s Hill explores the dynamics of the death penalty, and challenges attitudes from both sides of the issue. ...
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  • George Washington’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In this book, Professor Stephen Vicchio gives a comprehensive analysis of the religious beliefs of the first president of the United States, George Washington. After discussing Washington’s early religious life in the Anglican and Episcopal churches, Professor Vicchio goes on to analyze Washington’s views on God, the Bible, religious toleration, ethics and virtue, prayer, and w...
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    25,77 €

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    This work is a summary and analysis of Abraham Lincoln’s religion. This study begins with a description of the earliest relations Mr. Lincoln had with religion, his parents’ dedication to a sect known as the 'Separate Baptists.' By late adolescence, Lincoln began to reject his parents’ faith, and he appears to have been a religious skeptic until his marriage to Mary Todd. After...
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    26,64 €

  • Ivan & Adolf
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    Two characters--one drawn from literature, the other from history--wind up as Hell’s last tormented residents, each searching for the key to redemption.Cared for and guided by the wise maid Sophie, Adolf strives to attain forgiveness and Ivan struggles with his inability to forgive.Who will be the last man in Hell? ...
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    15,38 €

  • The Legend of the Anti-Christ
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In The Legend of the Anti-Christ, Stephen Vicchio offers a concise and historical approach to the history of the idea of the Anti-Christ, including precursors to the idea, the development of the idea in the New Testament, as well as the understandings of the legend of the Anti-Christ in the history of Christianity. Vicchio also raises the question of why there is so much emphas...
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    43,36 €

  • Biblical Figures in the Islamic Faith
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    ''Vicchio believes that by understanding how much Muslim tradition overlaps with the biblical traditions of Judaism and Christianity, we might begin to expose a wedge of common ground on which understanding and respect might begin to be built. ''Vicchio begins with a brief introduction sketching some fundamentals of Muslim history and culture, and clearing away some common mis...
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    33,68 €

  • Jefferson’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    Thomas Jefferson’s views have led many to conclude that he was an atheist, as recently as in the work of Christopher Hitchens. But the third President has also been labeled a deist, a Unitarian, and a Christian. Philosopher and theologian Stephen Vicchio takes on the challenge of analyzing Jefferson’s writings in detail to see if any of these appellations is fitting. The author...
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    20,51 €

  • Job in the Medieval World
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In this second of a three-volume work, Vicchio addresses the Job traditions as interpreted in the period of the Middle Ages--in Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources. From the Vulgate to the Qur’an, from Maimonides to Calvin, Vicchio addresses the complexities of the ''reception history'' of intriguing work. Two appendices address how Job has been treated throughout history in ...
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    28,30 €

  • Job in the Modern World
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In this third of a three-volume work, the author traces the interpretation of the book of Job from the Authorized Version of the Bible (King James Version) through philosophers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. He also covers Job in the literature of the Romantics, Blake, Melville, and Dostoyevsky. As appendices, he treats Job in Geography (Uz), Job and ...
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    27,42 €

  • Job in the Ancient World
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In this first of a three-volume work, Vicchio addresses the most ancient Hebrew text of Job in all its complexity, with particular emphasis on the problems of evil and suffering. But he follows this with the ''reception history'' of the text--how it was translated, read, and interpreted in other ancient works: the Septuagint, apocryphal books, early Christian writings, Talmud, ...
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  • The Voice from the Whirlwind
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    ''This book is concerned with why the world is not such an easy place in which to live. Human beings, as its apparently most sentient creatures, live daily in a morally ambiguous environment. Most of us experience contentment, happiness, and even profound joy. But these experiences are all too often interspersed or punctuated with unwarranted suffering, excruciating pain, and s...
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    30,88 €